What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.
Americans are much more open than people in Britain.
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists.
The more the UK feels distanced from European construction the less others are able to benefit from the full influence of the many good things that the UK can help us all to achieve, and therefore there are many areas where I think it would be beneficial to have the UK fully at the table.
You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.